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Definitions for Gaunt

[1] extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
[2] bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things: a gaunt, windswept landscape.
[3] John of. John of Gaunt.
[4] bony and emaciated in appearance
[5] (of places) bleak or desolate

Words related to Gaunt

angular, emaciated, forlorn, anorexic, thin, grim, bleak, bare, bony, cadaverous, desolate, dismal, dreary, forbidding, haggard, harsh, lean, meager, peaked, rawboned

Words nearby Gaunt

gaultheria, gaultier, gaum, gaumless, gaun, gaunt, gauntlet, gauntlet bandage, gauntry, gaup, gaur

Origin of Gaunt

1400–50; late Middle English, probably < Old French gaunet, jaunet yellowish, derivative of gaune, jaune yellow < Latin galbinus greenish-yellow

Other words from Gaunt

gaunt·ly , adverb
gaunt·ness , noun

Word origin for Gaunt

C15: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian dialect gand tall lean person

Synonyms for Gaunt

angular, anorexic, bleak, emaciated, forlorn, grim, thin, attenuated, bare, bony, cadaverous, desolate, dismal, dreary, forbidding, haggard, harsh, lank, lean, like a bag of bones, meager, peaked, peaky, pinched, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skeleton, skin and bones, spare, wasted